The Baltic Trip

Saturday, 15 September 2012

It's has been a good holiday, we have seen and learnt lots about the Baltic States, riden some excellent roads, viewed some outstanding scenery and met some interesting people along the way, but it's great to be home!

In the 18 days away, I rode 3500 miles, and the TDM performed very well throughout.

Friday, 14 September 2012

It was another great stay with Andre and Marie at the 'Bikers Only B&B' and great to meet the other bikers there. But time came to get back on the road and head to another excellent biker friendly B&B 'Orchard Farm' in Combles (northern France).

So to start the day I headed to the Rhine river and followed this for several miles before going up and down more great biking roads for most of the morning before getting on the main roads to get some of today's mileage done and to ensure getting to the B&B at a reasonable time.

I must admit, there has been such a huge amount of great motorcycling roads in Germany that I will look into spending a week discovering more of them next year and have a longer stay with Andre using that as a base.

During the day I crossed the German to Belgium border whilst on a minor road then the Belgium to France border whilst on the motorway so unfortunately was unable to stop and get a photo of this one, and speaking of photos, here is a selection of today's pictures...

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Yesterday's ride through Germany started with some great scenic routes away from a lot of traffic which meant excellent riding!
Then to make up time I done some motorway riding (and on their sections of autobahn without any speed limit, it was interesting)!
Then back to the twisties to finish the day finally arriving at the 'Biker Only B&B' in Germany.

To some of you these are just pictures of roads, to the bikers these are pictures of paradise.

There was of course many more but I was having so much fun I didn't stop to take photos so you will have to go and find them yourself!

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

It has been quite a busy holiday with all the touristy site seeing, so Alex and I decided to skip Prague in the Czech Republic and go straight to Germany as we had done the main part of the trip, the Baltic States, and felt the best part was done, just the journey home now.
We left Warsaw at 7:30am and headed straight for the German border using mostly fast main roads and toll roads, not my favourite roads but we had lots of miles to cover. It started to rain and soon become a laborious journey. We rode through the border as there was no where to stop and take photos so we pulled in at the next fuel station to say good bye to each other as Alex was off to see his god son near Hanover in Germany for a few days and I was heading off in a differant direction for some more interesting roads and scenery!

There are not many photos of the journey because of the roads used and the appauling weather but here are a few photos of Colditz Castle that I briefly stopped by to look at late afternoon time.